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Artistic pursuits; artistic ability. The Academy.

Of or pertaining to breathing; suited to the inhaling of air

e and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to assort goods.

Like ink; suitable for making ink. Sulphate of iron (copperas, green vitriol) is called atramentarious, as being used in making ink.

of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4. The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason. Miss Yonge. Attached column (Arch.), a column engaged in a wall, so that only a part of its circumference projects from it.

One attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. Specifically: One attached to an embassy.

To accommodate; to make suitable; to adapt. Arts . . . attempered to the lyre. Pope.

ends or accompanies in any character whatever, as a friend, companion, servant, agent, or suitor. "A train of attendants." Hallam.

Any step wrongly innovated or attempted in a suit by an inferior judge.

A legal agent qualified to act for suitors and defendants in legal proceedings; an attorney at law.

f cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit. R. F. Foster.

an account or accounts; as, to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court.

An automobile vehicle or mechanism; esp., a self-propelled vehicle suitable for use on a street or roadway. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving mo…

complish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease. "What signs avail " Milton. Words avail very little with me, young man. Sir W. Scott.

Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one's time; usual employment; vocation. There are professions, among the men, no more favorable to these studies than the common avocations of women. Richardson. In a few hours, above thirty thousand men left his standard, and returned to their ordinary avocations. Macaulay. An ir…

Silver ores suitable for treatment by amalgamation with mercury. [Sp. Amer.]

exing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart. "A baffled purpose." De Quincey. A suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all. South. Calculations so difficult as to have baffled, until within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened nations. Prescott. The mere intricacy of a question should not ba…

il must be real, substantial bondsmen. Blackstone. A. and B. were bail to the arrest in a suit at law. Kent.

In Gothic architecture, the molding, or suite of moldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.

The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels. [Also spelt barretry.] Coke. Blackstone.